FROM January to August this year, sea ports in southeastern China's Fujian province lifted a total of 6.76 million TEU, 10.4 per cent more than in the first eight months of 2011, Xinhua reports.

Container throughput of Xiamen, the largest port in the province, increased 11.2 per cent to 4.48 million TEU. Fuzhou, the second largest port of the province, handled 1.17 million TEU, up 9.6 per cent.

In the same period, collective throughput tonnage of Fujian's sea ports grew nine per cent year on year to 265 million tonnes.

Xiamen's throughput tonnage climbed 6.9 per cent to 111 million tonnes, while Fuzhou's increased 10.8 per cent to 71.56 million tonnes.